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Receding vs Regressive - What's the difference?

receding | regressive | Related terms |

Receding is a related term of regressive.


As a verb receding

is .

As a noun receding

is the action of something that recedes.

As an adjective regressive is

.

receding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of something that recedes.
  • * 1829 , Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)
    • the great overflowings and recedings of the waters

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    regressive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That tends to return, revert or regress.
  • (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.

    • Antonyms

    * progressive

    Related terms

    * regress * regression

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